继续我们对Fire Prevention Weekhistory, we look at消防和水工程in the 1920s. President Woodrow Wilson issued thefirst presidential proclamation火前vention Day, which noted the annual loss of 15,000 lives and more than $230 million (about $2.7 billion today) in property. The loss is especially keen, according to the proclamation, because the need for American materials to aid recovery from “the ravages of the great war is especially great at this time.” According to the National Fire Protection Association, in 2011, the American fire departments responded to 370,000 home structure fires, which caused 13,910 civilian injuries; 2,520 civilian deaths; and $6.9 billion in direct damage.
The public is “naturally careless” regardingfire prevention and protection, and “the average citizen gives little thought to the dangers … [due to the] carelessness that surrounds him,” opined the editor in theSeptember 8, 1920,issue的消防和水工程(CLICK HEREto download as a PDF, 1.9 MB).Commonsense methods of fire prevention can eradicatefire losses, the editor continued, and the role of individual carelessness in causing fires should be emphasized. “To arouse this individual to a sense of his danger and his duty is the object of observing Fire Prevention Day.” The fire losses in the United States, the editor concluded, have given the U.S. the “uneviable reputation of being the most careless nation in this respect on the earth.” In theOctober 6, 1920 edition, the editor urged his readers to “strain every nerve to bring these facts [regardingfireloss and prevention] and their lessons home to each citizen and show that all are in a measure responsible for the existing condition.” In “Firemen Must Lead in Fire Prevention” (消防和水工程, March 1, 1922,CLICK HEREfor PDF, 271 KB), the author urges readers to “[make] your fire department both a prevention and an extinguishing unit.”
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